Jovan Belcher with his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins and their newborn baby in happier times.

UPDATE …

The NY Daily News is reporting that Jovan Belcher’s mother has angrily denied a report that claimed she told investigators that her son had argued with his girlfriend about the paternity of their baby before he shot her dead and killed himself.

“It’s a lie. It’s all a lie,” Cheryl Shepherd told the Daily News on Friday. “That’s my grandbaby and it was wrong for them to put that out there. That is Jovan’s baby and it is my grandbaby.”

The New York Post, citing an unnamed law-enforcement source and an anonymous Kansas City Chiefs insider, reported that Shepherd told authorities that the couple had argued over the paternity of 3-month old Zoey on the morning of Dec. 1. That would have been right before the Chiefs linebacker shot Kasandra Perkins, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium, where he shot and killed himself in front of the team’s general manager, head coach and an assistant coach.

Shepherd, from West Babylon, L.I., was at Belcher’s Kansas City home when Perkins was shot, and made a desperate 911 call in an attempt to save her.

She told The News there was never an argument about the identity of the child’s biological father.

“I never said that,” she said. “You are hearing it from the horse’s mouth. Zoey is Jovan’s baby and my grandbaby. I have never had any doubt.”

Earlier we reported …

*According to the NY Post, the mother of late Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher, told investigators her son argued with his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins over their baby’s paternity before he shot her dead and killed himself.

Cheryl Shepherd — who was in her son’s suburban Missouri home the morning he shot Perkins nine times — told investigators after the shootings that there were questions about whether the West Babylon, LI-raised linebacker was the father of the couple’s 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, said sources familiar with the situation.

“The mother believed that there was an issue over whether [Belcher] was the father,” said a source close to the Chiefs with knowledge of the situation.

“She said he [believed he] wasn’t necessarily the father of the child.”

A Kansas City law-enforcement source confirmed, “She told [police] there was a question about the paternity.”

It’s unclear if the paternity issue was the reason for the final, violent end of the troubled relationship between Belcher, 25, and Perkins, 22.

“But the implication was that [paternity] was what the two of them were fighting about — that the baby might not have been his,” a source said.

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We all know EURWEB tends to come out with stories late for whatever reason.But here’s where I have to say something.

This story came out days ago and so did the mother and the police BOTH saying the mother DID NOT make those remarks about the child’s paternity.

From The NY Daily news on Friday Dec 14,2012

Jovan Belcher’s mother angrily denied a report that claimed she told investigators that her son had argued with his girlfriend about the paternity of their baby before he shot her dead and killed himself.

“It’s a lie. It’s all a lie,” Cheryl Shepherd told the Daily News on Friday. “That’s my grandbaby and it was wrong for them to put that out there. That is Jovan’s baby and it is my grandbaby.”

The New York Post, citing an unnamed law-enforcement source and an anonymous Kansas City Chiefs insider, reported that Shepherd told authorities that the couple had argued over the paternity of 3-month old Zoey on the morning of Dec. 1. That would have been right before the Chiefs linebacker shot Kasandra Perkins, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium, where he shot and killed himself in front of the team’s general manager, head coach and an assistant coach.

Shepherd, from West Babylon, L.I., was at Belcher’s Kansas City home when Perkins was shot, and made a desperate 911 call in an attempt to save her.

She told The News there was never an argument about the identity of the child’s biological father.

“I never said that,” she said. “You are hearing it from the horse’s mouth. Zoey is Jovan’s baby and my grandbaby. I have never had any doubt.”

A Kansas City Police Department spokesman said the lead investigator in the case had not uncovered any information that corroborated the report.

“We haven’t had anyone give us that information,” Darin Snapp, the KCPD public information officer, told The News. “I talked to the lead detective on the case, and he hasn’t received any information of that nature. It might be true, but none of the witnesses or people we have talked to have provided that information. I can’t confirm that (report).”

Snapp added that the case file had been turned over to a prosecutor’s office, and that if any paternity issue surfaced, it would be handled as a civil matter.

Shepherd has maintained custody of Zoey, although Perkins’ family — the 22-year-old Kasandra was from Texas — indicated in a statement that it would be involved in the girl’s upbringing.

An NFL spokesman said the league’s collective bargaining agreement with the Players Association calls for the surviving child of an NFL player to receive $108,000 per year over the next four years and then $4,000 a month in the fifth year after her father’s death. Zoey will then receive $52,800 a year until she is 18 years old, or until she is 23 if she enrolls in college.

Zoey will also be entitled to a $600,000 life insurance policy, a $100,000 retirement account, and $800,000 cumulative for the four seasons Belcher played in the league.
An open-casket wake for Belcher was held in Dix Hills, L.I., on Tuesday, and a funeral was held on Wednesday at the Upper Room Christian World Center.
Belcher was a star player at West Babylon High School and attended the University of Maine before playing for the Chiefs.
“I’m not going to say anymore, but I want you to put this out there: That baby is Jovan’s baby. That baby is my grandbaby,” Shepherd said.

How many times do I have to tell y’all from the top dont believe the Fox affiliate NY Post(Piece Of Sheet Tabloid),Spike Lee refuses to grant them interviews.

Did y’all see regarding the Connecticut Shooting how Fox news said the murderer had also killed his father their sources confirmed this just like they had confirmed Gabby Giffords had died.They just make up sheet.

So did he even bother to do a paternity test or was it all in his head? Why argue about something you not sure about when you can prove it?

This is what can happen when you have to deal with an insecure and violent individual with access to guns.

And why the media always seem to get the details so wrong after these tragic incidents. Poor Trey Songz thought his concert was the reason for this woman losing her life.
In the CT shooting, they first claimed the shooter targeted the kids in his mother’s class. Now they not even sure if she was just a substitute teacher or even had anything to do with the school at all.

I know this won’t be well received but I don’t care I’m going to say it anyway. Hard to feel sorry for this nasty trifling whore who apparently had been sleeping around and created this situation. She got just what she deserved as far as I’m concerned. The mere fact that paternity was being called into question and whether validated or not the bytch was did him wrong and succeeded in making a complete fool of him. What man wouldn’t be enraged by this and lose their grip? Too many women think playing a man with a child just to get paid is some kind of game and it’s not. Let this situation be notice to all you whorish women out there thinking you can get over without any consequences!

“Hard to feel sorry for this nasty trifling whore who apparently had been sleeping around and created this situation.”

But that’s the thing. How do you know that she was sleeping around?
Because he was insecure doesn’t prove anything. She could be out with her girls while he thinks she was with another man.

I don’t have an issue with a man wanting to be 99% sure that it’s his child. All you got to do is do a paternity test to confirm your suspicion.

But even the grandmother is now denying the paternity question: “Jovan Belcher’s mother angrily denied a report that claimed she told investigators that her son had argued with his girlfriend about the paternity of their baby before he shot her dead and killed himself.
“It’s a lie. It’s all a lie,” Cheryl Shepherd told the Daily News on Friday. “That’s my grandbaby and it was wrong for them to put that out there. That is Jovan’s baby and it is my grandbaby.”

As I asked before, why the media, including EUR, are so prone to getting things wrong?

“As I asked before, why the media, including EUR, are so prone to getting things wrong?”

Reds, we’ll take the bait and answer your (silly) question. It’s real simple because like you and 100 percent of all the people on planet Earth, we’re NOT perfect. There are a gazillion reasons why it may or may not be correct/incorrect. On top of that, even now, you don’t know what the reality actually is.

You are in no way involved in this case on ANY level except as a reader with an opinion. All you know is that the NY Daily News is now reporting that Cheryl Shepherd is denying that she said that. That is all you know at this point.

In this particular case, EUR was simply reporting what the NY Post reported which that a source in the case told them that’s what she said. So, if anyone got it wrong, it was them. Maybe. But, one more time, YOU don’t know any of the circumstances. All you, and everyone else for the most part, know is that Belcher’s mother is now saying that she didn’t say what the NY Post says she said.

Yes, EUR has makes it’s own mistakes and unfortunately, try as we might not to, we WILL make more in the future. It’s guaranteed. Again, just like YOU and everybody else currently breathing.

Further – we’d love to see YOU try and run a news organization (or any business, not to mention your own life) and be perfect – ’cause, for a gazillion reasons, it (perfection) ain’t gonna happen. Oh, don’t worry, we’ll waste no time showering YOU (from the peanut gallery) with righteous indignation as to why you are so prone to getting it wrong.

Let me help you out .Most conscious Black people in NY don’t fawk with the Post.

It is extremely racist.I’m sure you read it and it’s comments.It is a Rupert Murdoch owned rag.I used to live there,now am in LA hence New York Los Angeles connect moniker

The NY Daily News is waaaaaaaay more credible than the Post 99.9999% OF THE TIME.Any New Yorker will tell you.

But again here is my problem with you.

This story was corrected by the NYDN on Friday.

Today is Sunday,you still chose to run the Post story even though the Post did not quote Ms Shepherd,and did not name their other sources which the NYDN did. Whatever happened to knowing your source?

I know you being in LA think it has NY on it it must be credible,it is only incredibly racist.

They put Obama on the cover as an ape.Every Black person is portrayed in a negative light,called apes and thugs.This has been going on since the 80’s. They loved Kock I mean Koch and Guilani OPEN enemies of Black people(and we of them), and of course THE CHUMP( trump).

When it comes to Black celebs even athletes ,you rarely get direct quotes in the Piece Of Sheet Tabloid because the celebs dont talk to those liars,they have alienated them. You always get such n such was overheard saying,someone close to or our sources say.You had to have noticed that.

So if you want to be looked at as credible look at the NY Times, NY Daily News, Newsday,Amsterdam News, tea leaves and your mama before you believe the hoax which is what we called them when I was a child.You can’t even believe the sports stories only the scores.Hope you heed the warning.

So to all of you picking side between the two deceased peopleonce again THE POST has shown how easy it is to divide us,even with lies.Shame on you all.

“This story was corrected by the NYDN on Friday.
Today is Sunday, you still chose to run the Post story .”

You are so right about the NY Post. You got to be careful with stories coming from them and their “sources.”

But I’m going to say something in EUR’s defense. Well, somewhat. 🙂

All this could have been avoided if EUR didn’t have this habit of sitting on news before posting it. They had this story in draft status from a few days back, but choose to publish it now. If they had published it form the first time they heard it, then now they could be publishing the correction.

@Reds are you really that stupid? Seems logical to me if paternity is being questioned the tramp was obviously getting dick from somebody else. He did the right thing by killing her ass so that she would not see one dime of his money. His only mistake was killing himself. He should have done her OJ style and walked away a free man!

“if paternity is being questioned the tramp was obviously getting dick” 😕

And I’m the one that’s stupid.

So I guess in your delusional world, you have never heard of a man questioning paternity because he claims the child didn’t “look” like him?

But what if he questioned it because he suspected she was cheating.
Again, in your delusional world, you have never heard of a man (or woman) being 100% sure that their spouse was cheating, only to find out nothing could be further from the truth.

But then again, how many times have we seen on Maury where a man thought a child was his all his life, only to find out later it was not. I don’t see why then every man should not question the child’s paternity, no matter how much he trusts his wife. Here again, doesn’t mean she was getting dick.

For all we know, she could have cheated, and it wasn’t his child. That’s why my first comment on the topic was whether or not he had done a paternity test.
You, on the other hand, are certain she was cheating, even though I’m sure you have never met this woman. And never met Jovan either, so you don’t know how insecure he was.

This is some bullshit! How could Belcher NOT know that was his baby. That baby look just like his ugly ass! Some other Bitch was in his ear about his baby’s momma. Possible the bitch who was with him the night before he killed his child’s mother. My advice to black women…leave these dysfunctional black men alone. Most of them are sick bastards. Stop supporting them in all ways. I don’t care how much money they have, it’s only temporary and they don’t want you to have any of it, anyway. Most of them (ball players) are illiterate and too stupid to know how to handle money long term. WAKE UP BLACK WOMEN!

I don’t condone killing anyone over something like this, there’s three sides to every incident, like this , his side, her side and the side of the truth.

If she knew that he MIGHt not be the daddy of her child she should have said so AND WOMAN UP from the beginning with the TRUTH. She saw dollar signs instead..

And for any man to take the word of any woman because she said so and you as the male are not MARRIED or living with your wife or girlfriend, or if there’s a gap of time when the two of you are not together and then reunite? A paternity TEST is automatic without question, and better YET as a male having SEX,..be responsible for your OWN birth control and NOT rely on any woman to be responsible for YOUR birth control, EVERY one LIES to get their way one time or another.

I hope the court will order a paternity and if the child is NOT his, of which I think he found out this to be the truth..and lost it.. most likely given what his baby’s mama stated. And I don’t know WHY people who FEEL a child looks like someone..means the child has got to be the daddy?..that’s ludacris to assume as such..sheer ignorant.. Watch Maury and you will see who the bigger liars are in a relationship when it comes down to who’s telling the true about a child’s paternity..WOMAN are the bigger liars..and these males are STUPID to believe they are the father simply because the female say so.. males don’t sign your name to any birth certificate UNTIL you know for SURE you are the daddy of a new born with a female you’re simply have a booty cal with—l-friends with benefits..especially if you come from a established two parent middle class household. … ALWAYS use reliable birth control and protection to avoid having a CHILD that you can’t PROPERLY take care of..

My cousin is going through this bullshat now. The tramp hore told him he was the father of their child, so they got married (against his mother’s wishes). Then 1 year later when it became apparent the child was not his, the mother insisted that he get a paternity test. He refused. Then after to child turn 2 or 3, he caved in, got the test and found out it was not his baby. He didn’t kill her but i know he wanted to. Now he is required to pay child support to the bastard child that is not his.

@ Reds you have confirmed your stupidity by citing the Maury show in your response ha ha and no matter what you come back with it won’t change the fact that that skank ho got what she deserved for creeping around.

Let me just break it down for you.
When it was finally able to scientifically verify paternity with 99.9% accuracy, one of the biggest shocks was how many men had children that were not biologically theirs.

The Maury Povich show is only one public forum to shed light on this statistics.
Are you saying that the results of the tests conducted on this show were faked for publicity?

What then is your point?

Even though I don’t watch the Mary Povich show, the gravity of the topic which it addresses was known to anyone who was remotely connected with current events. I Just realized that someone else even referenced the Maury Povich show on this thread. Don’t you think it’s more than coincidentally that we both used the same reference when talking about paternity?

Get a clue man. You still making reference to this woman and this topic which doesn’t make any logical sense whatsoever.

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